Women have a greater verbal capacity.

It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.

I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.

My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation.

In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a capacity for goodness. Those are qualities for which we will be remembered most fondly.

I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.

I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years.